Guide to Prostate Diseases
Guide to Prostate Diseases
Nearly all men develop benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) as they get older, and prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men (after skin cancer). Yet symptoms can be distressing, and treatment options are often overwhelming.
The 2026-2007 Guide to Prostate Diseases can equip you with the knowledge you need to protect yourself and advocate for treatments that best fit your health needs and priorities.
This newly updated guide brings you everything you need to know about prostate diseases.
This guide brings context and clarity to today’s options for diagnosing and treating prostate cancer, from screening and novel imaging techniques to nerve-sparing surgery, hormonal therapy, and more. It also explores the prostate problem that keeps many men up at night—BPH—and explains the best ways to ease the discomfort and pain of prostatitis (inflammation of the prostate gland).
You’ll discover essential, evidence-based information, such as:
- Nine risk factors for prostate cancer, including five you can change
- Is it really prostate cancer? Other factors that can raise your PSA levels
- The urine tests that help detect high-grade prostate cancer before a biopsy
- 98 pages with charts, illustrations, self-assessment questionnaires, and more
- A new type of PET scan that can reveal the spread of cancer cells that older scans might miss
- Emerging techniques to help men on active surveillance forgo repeat biopsies
- New biopsy techniques that better target suspicious areas
- One surprising and simple step men can take that is linked to a 20% lower prostate cancer risk
- What “nerve sparing” techniques can and can’t do for preventing incontinence and erectile dysfunction
PLUS, you’ll learn about discoveries and advances that are providing encouraging help and new hope in treating prostate diseases including...
- How men should prepare for the most accurate PSA reading possible
- A new and more precise radiation therapy for prostate cancer
- New therapy protocols for advanced metastatic prostate cancer that improve quality of life
- Less invasive procedure choices for an enlarged prostate (BPH), such as Aquablation and laser therapy, with less risk of erectile dysfunction and urinary incontinence
- New expert roundtable on evidence-based BPH management strategies